Psych. Tech.
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- steps in the nursing process
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Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation - Communication
- reciprocal exchange of information, beliefs, feelings, and attitudes between oneself or two or more persons
- Body systems
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1. Integumentary - hair, skin
2. Skeletal - bones
3. Nervous - brain
4. Sensory - olfactory, optical, auditory, tactile, gustotory
5. Endocrine - glands
6. Respiratory - lungs
7. Cardiovascular - heart
8. Digestive - stomach
9. Muscular - biceps
10. Urinary - bladder
11. Reproductive - testes, ovaries - Tips to learning
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1. Think in numbers
2. Abbreviations "ADPIE"
3. Categorize
4. Make Charts
5. Group Things
6. Don't memorize
7. Learn by Association - Medical Term for "Head"
- Cranial/Cephalic
- Medical term for "Neck"
- Cervical
- Medical term for "Chest"
- Thoracic
- Medical term for "Liver"
- Hepata
- Vital Signs
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Temperature
Pulmonary
Respiration
Blood Pressure
Pain assessment - Definition: Ambulate
- Walk
- Definition: Evaluate
- to determine the end result
- Reasons for good Hygiene
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1. Prevent micro-organisms
2. social
3. self-confidence
4. observation - What is the goal of healthcare?
- to restore clients to an optimal level of well being
- Definition: Critical Thinking
- Process of objective reasoning or analyzing facts to reach a valid conclusion.
- What is involved in the Communication Process Cycle?
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1. Sender - encodes
2. Message - travels through a channel
3. Receiver - decodes
4. Feedback - Definition: Assessment
- To gather info. and make a judement
- HCW
- Health Care Worker - "The most therapeutic tool you have is yourself"
- HCT
- Health Care Team
- Purpose of Communication
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1. Meet a basic human need
2. establish rapport
3. relay info.
4. express emotions - Types of Communication
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1. Verbal - spoken word
2. Non-verbal - gestures, body language
3. Para-verbal - sounds - Non-verbal communication accounts for what percentage of communication?
- 93%
- Styles of Communication
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Formal
Social
Therapeutic - How should you listen?
- With a 3rd ear.
- Facilitators to Communication
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1. Touch
2. Humor
3. Silence
4. Affect
5. Emotions
6. Moods
7. Feelings - Proxemics
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1. Intimate - 6-18 inches
2. Personal - 11 1/2 in.-4 feet
3. Social - 4-12 feet
4. Public - 12 feet or greater